Daily Dothttp://www.dailydot.com/Daily Dot Articleen-usTue, 19 Feb 2013 16:07:09 +0000Why is Facebook censoring this tattooed cancer survivor?http://www.dailydot.com/society/facebook-cancer-survivor-tattoo-take-down/<p><img src='//cdn0.dailydot.com/cache/47/c7/47c75551ff2ff28fbd9238579f50693b.jpg'></p><style type="text/css">
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There doesn&#39;t seem to be anything indecent about a picture showing a breast cancer survivor&#39;s tattoo covering her bare chest. But Facebook keeps pulling it, and users are complaining.</p>
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The image, which has garnered 110,000 shares since Feb. 13, shows the clothes-free torso of a woman who has recovered from a double mastectomy. An elaborate tattoo of a woodland scene is draped across her.&nbsp;</p>
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It <a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=599928476689079&amp;set=a.501065466575381.126663.498331833515411&amp;type=1&amp;theater">appears on the Custom Tattoo Design</a> page and reads, &quot;Facebook keeps removing the post in 24hour as an offensive photo do [sic] to nudity.&quot;</p>
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&quot;However we feel this woman is both brave and strong so we&#39;re going to post it anyways and ask for your awareness and support,&quot; the comment continues.&nbsp;</p>
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Facebook&#39;s alleged deletion of the picture has garnered more than 16,000 angry comments. Numerous users call the picture &quot;beautiful,&quot; are calling the women &quot;courageous,&quot; and are sharing their personal tales of how breast cancer affected them.</p>
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&quot;I think it&#39;s beautiful and if Facebook thinks this is offensive then they should look at some of the other sites on Facebook there is no nudity here unlike other pages,&quot; <a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=599928476689079&amp;set=a.501065466575381.126663.498331833515411&amp;type=1&amp;comment_id=2215376&amp;offset=150&amp;total_comments=16586">wrote</a> Roxanne Firman.</p>
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The Daily Dot has reached out to Facebook to confirm if the picture was pulled in the past, and if so, for what reason. We have not yet heard back.</p>
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<a href="https://www.facebook.com/legal/terms">The site&#39;s Terms of Services</a> read that nudity is not allowed on Facebook, like the group claims, but what defines nudity isn&#39;t defined. (However, since the image is taken from a <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/02/19/facebook-removes-breast-cancer-survivors-double-mastectomy-tattoo-picture_n_2716057.html">book about women and tattoos</a>, perhaps Facebook is taking it down due to copyright infringement.)</p>
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Facebook has riled up its users in the past for inexplicably censoring a not-so-nude picture. In November, the site censored <a href="http://www.dailydot.com/news/facebook-censor-photo-woman-elbow/">a woman&#39;s elbows.</a> (In all fairness, they look like nipples in the thumbnail.)</p>
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<em>Photo via Custom Tattoo Design/</em><a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=599928476689079&amp;set=a.501065466575381.126663.498331833515411&amp;type=1"><em>Facebook</em></a></p>
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